From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
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Configuring a new drawing - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
Configuring a new drawing
- [Instructor] Obviously, if you are just starting out you need to create come new drawings before you can actually open them. I think you'll find most drafters tend to copy and duplicate files and then modify them to their needs rather than start completely from scratch. However, you need to start from somewhere, and if you set up your drawing with the appropriate information, you can save a file as a template to start from in the future with everything just how you need to start. To start a new file, you can simply type new down the command line, or go to file, new drawing. From here we can get a listing of all of the drawing templates we have available to us. And it's just a matter of choosing the one you want to start with. If you want a basic blank canvas, that has no layers, layouts, or any other information, you can use acat.dwt. If you want to see some templates of sheet sets or drawings with some sheet layouts and layers already set, you can choose one of the others including…
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